And while Sales doesn't usually call out these trolls, when one attack got personal, and took aim at her marriage breakdown, she decided enough was enough.

Four Corners: Rise of the trolls 0:30

Four Corners investigates the rise on the internet troll.

June 15th 2017

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Sales took to Twitter and told her followers she wouldn’t usually share the “copious abuse” she regularly receives since she began hosting the program, but chose to reveal this particularly offensive comment.

The anonymous tweeter decided to take aim at Sales’s recent split with husband Phil Willis, and linked that with the presenter’s assumed views on marriage equality.

I don't often share the copious abuse I get on twitter for doing my job. But this is the type of thing many women in public life get. pic.twitter.com/pIytxtEx3c

The tweet was sparked after another Twitter user made reference to the note sent to ABC staff warning them to keep their personal views on same-sex marriage off social media ahead of the postal plebiscite. They tweeted, “shame Leigh Sales ignored that director on 7.30 Report tonight” news.com.au reports. And that was when the Tweet in relation to her marriage was made.

It's unknown why that person thought Sales was campaigning for marriage equality. During that particular program the only words Sales spoke on the topic were to introduce a story filed by a 7.30 reporter on the “yes” campaign’s approach to the voluntary poll, and two questions to former Labor leader Kim Beazley.

Neither contained any personal comment or editorialising on the issue.

And Sales has been forced to call out trolls before when she exposed the sexist and abusive feedback she received online during last year’s election campaign.

Let me call out the river of disgusting, sexist and relentless abuse I've on Twitter during this campaign with a handful of examples: